Greening the roof

Depending on the design of your house, you can choose which roofing system you prefer: extensive or intensive.



Extensive landscaping involves the use of unpretentious growth conditions for plants that are able to survive on a thin light soil, to transfer wind, moisture and frost.

The thickness of the soil for plants can not be more than 15-20 cm, the load on the roofing structure is 7-15 kg per 1 sq. Km. m.

In Europe, with the help of this type of gardeninglined roofs of industrial and storage facilities. In the greening of private houses, an extensive type is used to decorate sheds, garages and other farm buildings.

Sawcloth, cuff, various types of sedum, young, lawn grass - these plants are usually used for extensive landscaping.



Intense landscaping has in mind the creation of the same landscape ason the surface of the earth - with its help, your roof can turn into a flowering garden with flower beds, cobbled paths, trees, shrubs and even a pond.

Intensive landscaping gives an opportunityrealize any idea of ​​a landscape designer and arrange a unique natural corner on the roof. And it is not surprising that after this the roof will become your favorite place of rest, where you will be away from noise, in perfect harmony with nature.

Planting a plant requires a layer of fertile,rich soil with a thickness of 20-80 cm, the load on the roofing structure will be 200-900 kg per 1 sq. km. meter. This type of landscaping uses bulbous plants, perennials, small bushes and trees up to 4 m in height. Of course, such a garden requires good care, regular watering, fertilizing, mulching, weeding, pruning, etc.

Intensive type is well suited for landscaping of roofs of shopping and business centers, cottages, restaurants.



It looks great on the roofs and carpet of sedumov. A seductive carpet - one of the simplest types of landscapingroofing. The plants that he uses are of great variety, and also unpretentious to the composition of the soil. Also for a short period of time, they can create beautiful, diverse in texture and color live carpets.

This kind of gardening is almost universal: It can be used on flat horizontal and inclined roofs, planted on the opposite side of the world, and also used for extensive and intensive way of landscaping of roofs. The sedimentary carpet is very unpretentious, requires minimal maintenance, and practically does not need additional watering.

It is a bright decoration element, differing in its color scheme, light weight (about 100 kg per square meter of the roof), a small height - about 10 cm.



Lawn - Another variant of gardening of roof space. Specially selected assortment of herbs resistant to drought, allows you to get on the roof of a beautiful green lawn.

But the lawn landscaping of the roofs requires more regular maintenance than the sedimentary carpet.



And on the roof you can create a real flowering meadow with tart, intoxicating aromas, bees buzzing and bright flowering perennials.

This option is suitable for roofs with an angle of inclination from 0 to 8º.

The roof can be made blooming for the wholewarm season. For this, various types of low perennials resistant to drought (clove, yarrow, poppy, echinacea, sage, lavender), bulbous (daffodils, snowdrops, crocuses), as well as ornamental grasses are used for this purpose.



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